Why Crash Diets Backfire
Crash diets create extreme deficits that produce fast early loss followed by high rates of abandonment and regain.
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Crash diets create extreme deficits that produce fast early loss followed by high rates of abandonment and regain.
Plant-based diets tend to be lower in energy density and higher in fibre, which supports weight management when they are built around w
Pharmacists are the most accessible medication experts in healthcare, and the consultation is usually free and takes minutes.
Stress hormones raise blood glucose by prompting the liver to release stored glucose, independent of what you ate.
The gut communicates with the brain via the vagus nerve, hormones and microbial metabolites, influencing appetite and satiety.
A reasonable addition to those four things. A poor substitute for any of them.
Satiety signalling takes 15–20 minutes to register, so eating fast reliably means eating more before fullness arrives.
Durable habits are small, attached to existing cues, and designed to survive interruption rather than to be perfect.
'Natural' has no binding regulatory definition for supplements, so it constrains nothing about how a product was made or what it contai
Water weight is fluid held in tissue and the gut, and it fluctuates far faster and further than fat ever does.
Soluble fibre needs water to gel and function, and increasing fibre without fluid frequently causes constipation and discomfort.
Short sleep increases hunger, reduces satiety, shifts food preference toward calorie-dense options and reduces spontaneous activity.
Eating vegetables and protein before carbohydrate within a meal reduces the post-meal glucose peak in several small trials.
GLP-1 is a gut hormone released after eating that slows gastric emptying, increases insulin release and reduces appetite.
A great deal is checkable and holds up. What cannot be checked is what the marketing leans on.
Alcohol provides seven calories per gram and simultaneously reduces restraint, disrupts sleep and shifts next-day food choices.
The brand on the bottle, the company distributing it and the support address are frequently three different names.
Chronic stress influences weight mostly through behaviour — appetite, food choice, sleep and activity — rather than through cortisol di
Returning after time off requires a lower starting load than where you stopped, and strength returns faster than it was originally buil
Resistant starch resists digestion in the small intestine and ferments in the colon, behaving more like fibre than starch.
Drinks produce weaker satiety responses than the same calories in solid form, so they add to intake rather than displacing it.
Soluble fibre slows gastric emptying and carbohydrate absorption, flattening the post-meal glucose curve.
The product is unmeasurable without a baseline. Ten minutes of setup makes it testable.
Breakfast is not metabolically required, but what you do with the morning affects appetite for the rest of the day.